Inconsistent cybersecurity practices in organisations pose a threat to the energy sector. Variation in cybersecurity culture, skill levels and training, and over-reliance on regulations and resistance to complex security protocols expose critical systems to threats. A new open-access handbook from researchers from the University of Vaasa, Finland, offers a structured, user-friendly resource to enhance cybersecurity resilience in the Nordic energy sector.

A team of researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, and the Institut Pascal at Université Clermont Auvergne has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The platform created by the researchers enables the formation and dynamic tuning of photonic crystals with integrated spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and controlled laser emission. The results of this groundbreaking research have been published in the renowned journal Laser & Photonics Reviews.